Luis Vidal: Encounters NEW YORK

DESIGN Luis Vidal: Encounters NEW YORK

Fri, May 09– Tue, May 20, 2014

Venue Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Pl, New York, NY 10012 View map Phone: 212-683-0023

Admission Free. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, from 9 am to 8 pm, and Saturday, from 11 am to 5 pm.

More information Center for Architecture Spanish architecture firm luis vidal + architects (LVA) will bring its innovative architectural exhibition to the Center for Credits Architecture in New York. Organized, produced and made possible by luis vidal + architects in cooperation with the Center for Encounters represents an architectural installation created to discover, Architecture and Spain Culture New explore, and display the work of Spanish practice luis vidal + architects York—Consulate General of Spain: (LVA) —a celebration of their vision and main projects over the last ten member of the SPAIN arts & culture years, including the soon-to-be-inaugurated Terminal 2 at London’s network. With the sponsorship of Heathrow Airport, scheduled to open in June 2014. Noken (Porcelanosa Group), MONOPOL and Inasus and The exhibition was conceived to create a meditational space in which one additional support generously may experience the architectural queries and needs of the 21st Century provided by ABC Imaging, Lladró through the critical eye of unconventional architect, Luis Vidal. This is not and Freixenet. Special thanks to the an architectural exhibition as you have ever seen before. A “vertical exhibition’s official carrier, AirEuropa. garden” planted by hand: the installation (6,000 “flowers”, 80 projects, 18 cities) will take the viewer through a personal journey along the conceptual map of Luis Vidal and his collaborators. Based on an original idea by Ana Serrano.

ABOUT LUIS VIDAL

Luis Vidal studied architecture at the University of Greenwich (London, UK) where he specialized mainly in airports and transport infrastructures and graduated with honors in 1994. In 1995, he was elected the youngest member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

Luis Vidal was project director of the new Terminal T4 for Madrid Barajas Airport, and co-author and director of the new Warsaw International Airport. He has also worked on an additional 24 airport projects. Vidal is the concept and lead architect of the new Terminal 2 at London Heathrow

Embassy of Spain – Cultural Office | 2801 16th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20009 | Tel: (202) 728-2334 View this event online: https://www.spainculture.us/city/new-york/luis-vidal-encounters/ Created on 09/29/2021 | Page 1 of 2 Airport.

ABOUT LUIS VIDAL + ARCHITECTS (LVA)

In 2004 Luis Vidal founded luis vidal + architects (LVA). One year later, LVA was awarded first prize in the International Competition for the new Zaragoza International Airport, which was shortlisted for the 2009 Mies Van der Rohe Award and recent prizewinner at the International Tourist Fair 2012 (Fitur) for the airport’s AENOR Energy Efficiency Certification.

Since then, LVA has developed more than 80 projects of different scales, many of which have also been recognized with prestigious awards, including the interior design of the Restaurant at Madrid’s Reina Sofia Museum (Winner of the Architecture Prize of the City of Madrid for the Best Commercial Establishment, 2005), Can Misses Hospital in Ibiza and Vigo’s New Hospital in Galicia (Winner of the Design & Health International Awards 2012 Future Health Project category.)

Opening reception and book signing on Friday, May 9, 2014, from 6 pm to 9 pm. RSVP.